Oscar loew



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OSCAR LOEW, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO JOHN M. PENDLETON, OF SAMEPLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN BLEACHING DARK SOAPS AND FOOTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 104,470, dated J (me21, 1870.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, OsoAR Lonw, of New York city, in the State of NewYork, have invented a new and Improved Method of Bleaching Foots or DarkSoaps of any kind, of which the following is a specification:

The dark soaps or foots are first dissolved in warm water, which shouldcontain an excess of alkali. I then add from fifteen to thirty per cent.of a saturated solution of chloride of soda, or an equivalent of otherchlorides, properly known as the hypochlorites of the alkaline oxides. Agentle heat is then applied to the mixture, and the parts thoroughlycommingled by stirring, till the darkbody becomes changed to the colordesired, when it is finished as is usual in finishing soaps.

The claim for my invention for which Let OSCAR LOEW.

Witnesses D. I. WARD, J. R. STURGES.

